CONTENTS. *i 



VII. An Improvement of the Method of correcting the obferved Di- 

 Jiance of the Moon from the Sun or a Fixed Star. By the 

 Reverend Mr Thomas Elliot, Page 191. 



VIII. Account of a remarkable Agitation of the Waters of Loch Tay : 

 in a Letter from the Reverend Mr Thomas Fleming to 

 Mr John Playfair, 200. 



IX. AbJlracJ of a Regifter of the Weather, kept at Branxholm for ten 



years. Communicated by the Duke of Buccleugh, 203. 



X. Theory of the Earth. By Dr James Hutton, 209. 



XL The Orbit and Motion of the Georgium Sidus, determined di- 

 rectly from Obfervations . By Mr John Robifon, 305. 



XII. Abjlracl of a Regijler of the Weather, kept at Hawkhill from 



1771 to 1776. Communicated by Mr John Macgowan, 333. 



II. 



PAPERS OF THE LITERARY CLASS. 



I. Effay on the Origin and Structure of the European Legi/latures. 



By Mr Allan Maconochie. Part I. 3. 



II. A Dijfertation to prove that Troy was not taken by the Greeks. 



By Mr John Maclaurin, - ^- 



III. An Ode on the Popular Superjlitions of the Highlands. Written 



by the late Mr William Collins : And communicated by the 

 Reverend Dr Alexander Carlyle, - 63. 



IV. An EJ/ay upon the Principles of Hijlorical Compojition, with an 



Application of thofe Principles to the Writings of Tacitus. By 

 Mr John Hill. Part I. . 76. 



V. On the Dramatic or Ancient Form of Hijlorical Compaction. By 



Mr William Richardfon, - _ oo ( 



VI. A Grammatical Effay on the Nature, Import and Effett of certain 



Conjunctions ; particularly the Greek AE. By Mr John Hun- 

 ter > *. / 113. 



VII. 



